Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.